Word: packet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Donald Davies devises "packet switching" as a way to route information through networks...
...light bulb, but he had dozens of people in his lab working on it. William Shockley may have fathered the transistor, but two of his research scientists actually built it. And if there ever was a thing that was made by committee, the Internet--with its protocols and packet switching--is it. But the World Wide Web is Berners-Lee's alone. He designed it. He loosed it on the world. And he more than anyone else has fought to keep it open, nonproprietary and free...
...TOURISTY SITE: For serenity and beauty away from the crowds, take a packet of London's many newspapers to Mount Street Gardens and enjoy a respite on one of the wooden benches. The gardens are off the tourist trail in the tony Mayfair section, nestled behind Mount Street, South Audley and Farm Street...
...intruder had set up a "packet sniffer"--a network tool that monitors all the traffic of a local network. This particular "sniffer" had access to only a small section of the Sever Hall building, not the entire Harvard network...
Balkin's experiments will figure out whether the gum is a good way to keep soldiers up while they are in battle. Amurol suspects its gum might taste good enough for guys who eat powdered coffee straight from the packet. The Amurol marketers are not overly ambitious people...